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Lord Byron

You're Dead to Me

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The Grand Tour

The grand tour was a thing that kind of young aristocratic dudes would go to europe to kind of better themselves after, you know, it was kind of this right of passage. So ya, byron went, he actually went as far as m albania. There's a great portrait of him in the national portrait gallery in london. I'm wearing albanian costume. The most famous portrait of him really is di wen. A was about a young nobleman whos sort of had enough of his life in britain, and in the excesses of that, and is, um, travelling through europe. It came out in four cantos over a

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